Even if you don’t worship at the Shrine of Meryl Streep, you’ll enjoy watching her hard-nosed Sister Aloysius Beauvior, the principal of a Catholic elementary school in 1964 Bronx, abhor the ballpoint pen, admonish a fellow nun for keeping cough drops in her desk (they are “a candy by another name”) and recoil at a student’s hair barrette — obviously a mark of promiscuity.

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